droans @ droans @lemmy.world

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It's basically Reddit from ten years ago.

Fortunately I haven't seen any of the nasty communities yet, but they just might be more hidden.

I mean, in fairness, the open standard Office Open XML format did win out.

But that also went public in 2006. Open Office XML, the not-so-confusingly named alternative, is practically extinct.

I legitimately could not get into Lemmy with any of the other apps. They just all felt wrong.

But I used Lemmy more on the first day the app came out than I did since I made my account two months ago. Best part is it feels just like Sync for Reddit did, including all the great features.

The only reason I haven't paid yet for no ads is that I'm waiting to see how much I like it. I might even pay for Ultra if they provide a discount for buying it with the Reddit app.

My old boss told me that he didn't care how many hours I worked as long as I got the job done.

Months later I got called into the office and put on a PIP with the reason being that I left early. I worked from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM.

I ended up going back to the company I was at before then. They have the same policy but actually don't care. My current boss has told me multiple times to get off the computer and go home. Last time I had to leave early, she told me to make sure I factored in traffic.

I can't stick with Ubuntu anymore.

Just today, I ran apt upgrade followed by an autoremove. I wasn't paying attention and didn't realize until afterwards that it removed GDM and the NVidia drivers along with about 80 other packages. And this isn't the first time I've run an update only for it to break something vital.

What's the "just works" distro these days?

I installed Ubuntu years ago for my home server but it's become a real pain in the ass.

"Thanks for coming over, I'm having an issue with-"

"Sorry, that's exactly the same as a totally unrelated issue someone had over in Des Moines. Read the rules before we knock on your door next time."

Termius?

I might pay for their subscription if it was like $2 a year. Cloud sync is not worth $120 a year.

I only really need it when I'm transferring devices. Oddly enough, they also seem to give you a free one week trial whenever you do so.

I get that they're targeting enterprise customers, but they could just charge a smaller fee for individuals and go hard on companies who are skirting the rules.

Online Office has definitely gotten better. At this point I think the big missing features are macros (which will never come) and Power Query/Pivot and the Data Model.

That's not really a killer app.

The biggest reason Windows is the leader by far is because of the Office suite. There's no good alternative that has anywhere near the features or fluidity and doesn't feel like it was designed in 2005.

I'd pay for one of them, but none of my toilets have outlets near them. The cost to wire them in isn't worth it.

Don't forget. If you have a server and it's been penetrated, there needs to be a monitor which displays "SERVER HACKED" in giant, red, blinking text.

Mine is Ubuntu. What it says is "I installed it years ago because it was the one I knew most about but now very much regret doing so."

At some point I'll have time and switch. Maybe go with Mint or Debian. There's way too many things that randomly break and it's become rather laggy over time.

Fyi - if you've used Sync for Reddit, you can import your settings into the app. You'll need to export it from the original app first, though.

I've been using a forked version of Infinity for Reddit. The comment position is the number one thing I've been missing with it.

It was so nice to just swipe out of the comments to look at the original post again.

If he's convicted, he'll almost certainly face house arrest until his natural* death.

It's likely he would be killed in prison. The Justice Department would neither want to see him killed nor make him a martyr.

^(*These statements have not been approved by the FDA. Product may contain up to 99% processed ingredients.)

A year ago, I was certain that my next vehicle would be a Kia or Hyundai EV. I have a 2017 Accent and have enjoyed driving it.

Then came the spike in thefts after it became clear they never installed immobilizers in the vehicles. That itself wasn't enough to make me lose faith in them, but their response (or lack thereof) did. Instead of quickly fixing the issue so that the thefts would rapidly halt, they blamed TikTok and charged owners up to $2K to install window break sensors.

That didn't work, so they waited a few months and then released a software update for most vehicles (except mine) that supposedly would mitigate the issue by requiring the driver to unlock the doors with the key fob. As drivers quickly discovered, that fix also didn't work for all vehicles.

I've got zero faith in them anymore. They could have come out ahead by pulling a Tylenol - admit the mistake and rapidly recall the vehicles so that immobilizers can be installed. Deflecting never works.

For the record, 96% of all 2014-2021 vehicles not made by Hyundai or Kia came with immobilizers. Every vehicle made by them which had a keyed ignition did not come with one.

Think of how much longer we can make devices last!

Now think about how the manufacturers will also never let that happen.